Haggai 1:6 (WEB)

Passage

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

Nearby Context

Haggai 1:4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

Haggai 1:5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

Haggai 1:7 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sown", "much", "bring", "little", "enough", "drink", "aren", and "filled". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sown" and "much", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "Now therefore this is what Yahweh of..." into verse 7's "This is what Yahweh of Armies says...", so "sown" and "much" belong inside that flow. In Haggai context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sown" and "much" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.